Night of the Candy Creepers is the 3rd book I’ve had the pleasure of illustrating for author Donna Davies. I’ve been wanting to write about this book for months (I began work on it last January) but I’ve been waiting for Halloween to come around. For the first half of the story, a kid walks through his neighborhood trick-or-treating while being followed by the mysterious “Candy Creepers.”

I decided that to make the monsters seem even more out of place and spooky, I would have to make the neighborhood as realistic as possible. Thankfully, I just happened to live in a realistic neighborhood.  So I grabbed by camera and went for a walk. I took a bunch of great photos and used them as inspiration and references throughout the book.

Here are a couple of photos I took of the neighborhood and the illustrations that I used pieces of those photos in.

If you would like to see more of the finished illustrations, check out the book on Amazon:

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